Tailored Approaches to Stroke Health Education
"TASHE"

Active, not recruiting

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. No prior history of stroke; 2. High risk (defined as a history of one or more stroke risk factor (HTN, diabetes, tobacco, abdominal obesity, heart disease, high cholesterol); 3. Over age 34 years at onset of intervention (we have selected this age cut off due to the large increase in stroke incidence among minority groups at age 34 ); 4. Self-identified as Black or Hispanic; and 5. Member of a church congregation who lives in a household with a telephone.

Professionals

Education

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This project is supported in part by the NIH Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS) Network, and NINDS grant 3P50NS055977 to Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and UT Southwestern Medical Center.